La Oliva Monastery (Navarre)
| Cistercian Abbey of La Oliva | |
|---|---|
 The abbey from the cloister |
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| location |
 Spain Navarre |
| Lies in the diocese | Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela |
| Coordinates: | 42 ° 22 '18.5 " N , 1 ° 28' 1" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
305 |
| founding year | 1134 |
| Cistercian since | 1150 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1835 |
| Year of repopulation | 1927 ( Trappist ) |
| Mother monastery | L'Escaladieu monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
| Congregation | (Tappists) |
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Daughter monasteries |
Leyre Monastery (1269) |
The Monastery of Nuestra Señora de la Oliva (lat. Abbatia BM de Oliva ; not to be confused with Abbey Oliva at Gdansk in today's Poland ) is a Cistercian - Abbey of the Strict Observance ( Trappists ) at Rio Aragón 2km west of Carcastillo in Navarra in Spain in the barren land of the Bardenas Reales .
history
King García IV of Navarre founded the Cistercian monastery in 1150 on the site of a monastery that had probably existed since 1134 as a subsidiary of the L'Escaladieu monastery in France from the filiation of the primary abbey of Morimond . The foundation was 1152 by Pope Eugene III. approved. The foundation was supported by Berenguer IV of Barcelona . Construction of the monastery church began in 1164 and was consecrated in 1198 under Abbot Aznario de Falces. From the 14th century on, the monastery experienced its decline. In 1634 it joined the Congregation of Aragón. When the monastery was abolished under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal , there were still 21 monks. In 1927 the monastery was repopulated by Trappists, who founded two subsidiaries in recent years (1994 Las Escalonias ; 2008 Zenarruza ).
Buildings and plant
The monastery complex is almost completely preserved. The church is a three-aisled basilica with a groin-vaulted basilical six-bay nave, two also six-bay side aisles, an expansive transept, a semicircular main apse and two rectangular closed side apses. The vault ribs already start on the ground - atypical for a Cistercian building. The three-part facade has a pointed arch with two lateral rosettes , a central oculus and a late Romanesque portal with several archivolts. The cloister is north (left of) the church. The late Gothic cloister, the chapter house and the brothers' hall, both with four supports, as well as the sacristy and two passages in the east have been preserved. Only the kitchen of the north wing is preserved; The refectory and warming room, as well as the Konversentrakt in the west, are missing. To the southwest of the church is the 18th century guest wing, opposite the gate house. The monastery was declared a Monumento Nacional ( National Monument ) in 1980 .
literature
- Heinz Schomann : Art monuments of the Iberian Peninsula. = Iberian Peninsula. Volume 2: Central Spain. Special edition. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1997, pp. 189–190.
- José María Pérez Lerendegui, Jesús María Hernández Basurko: El Monasterio de la Oliva. Un estilo de arte para un estilo de vida. Edilesa, León 2000, ISBN 84-8012-290-0 .
- Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 804–805.
